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Japan: Osaka court rules ban on same-sex marriage constitutional
The marriage of two people of the same sex or gender, same-sex marriage, is legally recognized in 30 countries, including liberal states like Finland and Sweden, catholic-majority states like Brazil, Mexico, and Spain, and G7 nations like Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the UK, and the US. However, Japan, with the world’s third-largest economy and respectable democracy, defines marriage as one between both sexes in its constitution. Though marriage and economy aren’t related to one another directly, economic growth is fundamentally sustained by liberal attitudes in democratic countries. Japan’s constitution was written after WWII and has rarely been revised partly because of people’s, or conservative politicians’, attitudes towards stability. Japan also doesn’t recognize different family names for married couples. So, in practice, almost all the newly-wed wives change their surname to their husbands’.
According to Wikipedia, “Marriage is a union between people called spouses. It establishes rights and obligations between them, as well as between them and their children, and between them and their in-laws.” While Japan’s younger generations have more liberal attitudes toward LGBTQ, the majority of the voters, older people, are still conservative and aren’t in favor of any changes because they are happy now as they are now.
Enjoy reading the article about the conservative attitude of an economic giant, Japan.
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